My Work.

​Nedda Sarshar hails from an Iranian immigrant family in Toronto, Ontario. She has attended the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity’s Emerging Writers Program in 2018, and studied Writing, Policy and Civic Engagement at Syracuse University. She is involved in organizations that are committed to creating platforms for marginalized voices in the arts, including BIPOC TV AND FILM and MIRCHI COMEDY. She enjoys writing about diasporas, identity crisis' and star-crossed lovers.

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​Poems ~

•  "Air; Soil", Room Magazine, June 2021 
•  "Leave-Taking", Prism International, May 2021 
• "Why did we bury the ashes?", Temz Review, May 2021 (Selected for Best Canadian Poetry 2023) 

​Nonfiction ~

• Tehranto, The Rumpus, June 2022
• "A Place Called Home", Short-Listed New Quarterly's Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest, September 2021
• "Tehranto" , Long-listed Room Magazine's Short Form Contest, February 2021
• "Fesenjoon", Room Magazine, October 2020
• "Call Me Iranian", This Magazine, July 2020
• "Celebrating Nowruz In 2020 During COVID-19 Reminds Us We’re Survivors", Huffington Post Canada, March 2020
• "Am I Your Toddler or Your Middle-Aged Coworker?", The Belladonna, February 2020
• "Why the scandal around Justin Trudeau’s racist costume hits close to home", This Magazine, September 2019 

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TV and Film ~

• 2021 Reel Asian's "So You Think You Can Pitch?" Winner for short film "Unibrow"
• Director, Writer and Co-Producer, "Rachel and Raha" (post-production), September 2021-Present
• Kids TV Writing Workshop, BIPOC TV and Film, May 2020
• Finalist, IGP* BIPOC TV and Film Accelerator, September 2020​​

Interviews~

• "It's the Sort of Story I want to Be Creating", Invisible Publishing, January 2020

Retreats~

• Emerging Writers Program, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, October 2018

Grants~

• Canada Arts Council Research and Creation Grant, February 2022
  
• Toronto Arts Council Emerging Writer Grant, September 2021